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Gun control, road closures, gangs, and other topics were covered when El Dorado County Sheriff John D'Agostini addressed the women of the El Dorado County Republican Women Federated at their Monday meeting.
D'Agostini opened by noting that everyone was probably already aware of the letter he sent to Vice President Joe Biden in which he said he and his staff would not be pressured into enforcing any unconstitutional provision, law or executive order abridging the Second Amendment.
"I put them on notice you will not confiscate guns in El Dorado County," he said. "I work for you and I'm going to do my job."
He said so far Biden hasn't responded to his letter. "He didn't call, he didn't write," laughed the sheriff.
D'Agostini went on to say that over 500 sheriffs across the country have sent similar messages and at least 17 of them are from California, mostly from Northern California.
"I think they are starting to get the message," he said, noting that gun control is not the issue. Instead he said it was a problem of insufficient mental health funding and not holding people responsible for their crimes.
D'Agostini claimed that what politicians are trying to do goes further than attacking the Second Amendment.
"These gun control laws make criminals out of law-abiding citizens," he noted, saying that cities with the strictest gun control laws — such as Chicago, Washington D.C., and San Francisco -—have the highest gun violence. "All they do is create a host of victims."
Addressing a different topic, the sheriff said some 2,000 CCW (carry and conceal weapon) permits have been issued in this county and he has taken steps to streamline the process for getting one. However, even with a permit, buying a hand gun is problematic because there is presently a shortage of hand guns and ammunition for sale. One audience member asked if it was because Homeland Security was buying up large quantities of items.
The sheriff also commented on the push by state Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco to make possession of Schedule 1 drugs a misdemeanor. Schedule 1 drugs include mescaline, LSD, heroin, and marijuana. D'Agostini said he spent most of his career working in narcotics and he called the bill "ludicrous," saying that teenagers across the country are dying from heroin overdoses.
D'Agostini went on to give an update on sheriff operations, saying he has worked to make them more efficient. He said last year they gave back $2.7 million in funding to the county. He said they were able to do so by changing work schedules and that change actually resulted in more deputies on the street. He said they are also doing more proactive enforcement.
In commenting on gangs and the crime rate, the sheriff said the county does have some gang activity and having a casino has added to the crime rate. He said his office receives a half million of the $5.5 million the casino gives El Dorado County every year. But according to a study done a year and a half ago, the annual cost of policing the casino is $737,000.
The sheriff was also questioned about the status of the 42 roads that were closed in the Eldorado National Forest. He noted that the Forest Service has completed a supplemental environmental study and a draft has been posted on its Website for comment. He claimed the Forest Service would like to close the roads it needs to fix but doesn't have the money to do so. He said he would prefer that the roads remain open as a safety issue since if they are closed, it makes it easier for Mexican drug gangs to use them for growing marijuana.
In conclusion, D'Agostini urged the audience to "get involved. Write those letters. Make those phone calls. Stand up," he said, as he received a round of applause from the audience.
Also speaking at the meeting was Ivy Larsen, a former speech writer and staff member for Sen. Jim DeMint. She recounted her time working in Washington, D.C., and the fight over amnesty. She said DeMint has since left the Senate and is the new president of the Heritage Foundation.
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As a part-time resident of El Dorado County and Chicago (as well Dubai, UAE) I take issue with the remarks of our Sheriff concerning gun related crime within the City of Chicago. Specifically, his assertion that gun control has somehow made Chicago a more dangerous city; citing, conveniently for his 'point', unsourced statistics of violent crimes. Apart from the folly of not understanding the actual numbers, the demographics and the sheer density of Chicago's population, the Sheriff is naively misinformed at best and deliberately manipulative at worst. This is quite unfortunate from an otherwise respected and wholly capable law enforcement professional. The truth is the majority of Chicago is a safe place to live; remarkably so when one considers the density of over five million folks (from every nation on Earth) inhabiting a sliver of prime real estate along Lake Michigan. In fact, I feel far safer on the streets of Chicago than I do Sacramento. Arguments could easily be made - with statistics in support - that gun control works in Chicago. Proving or disproving this is not, however, the point of my rebuttal. It is rather this: Shame on you Sheriff D'Agostini for using Chicago as a manipulative crutch to advance your agenda. Further shame on you for embarrassing the residents of El Dorado County with your ignorance of basic statistical analysis. Sheriff, you are far more intelligent than your act demonstrates; leading me to wonder if you believe those you serve to be simpletons. Your scare tactics are unprofessional and unworthy of your office. Dubai City has strict gun control. Dubai has a crime rate of near zero per capita. Gun control has little to do with crime in Dubai yet I could easily make it appear as such. It isn't that simple. In Dubai. In Chicago. Or in El Dorado County. (Note: for the record, I am a gun owner who is neither pro or con the issue of gun control. I find the NRA just as repugnant as I do the ACLU. I fully support the spirit and intent of the 2nd Amendment. Lastly, I believe that if one cannot take it with a bow or a .270 then one should seriously consider going vegan until his marksmanship skills improve)Reply |
Morris, it isn't rocket science. Chicago, Detroit, DC, Oakland and many others where the libs have disarmed the law abiding citizens the morgues are full of victims. Have you seen where Chicago is thinking of putting the pictures of unclaimed bodies on the internet? I realize you have your agenda and no amount of facts will dissuade from it but last year Chicago had 500 murders. They weren't commited by law abiding citizens. Do you have any historical knowledge of what happens to useful idiots once they are no longer useful?Reply |
Morris when in Chicago you must live in a bubble or perhaps another way of putting it, a nice safe and secure gated, guarded community. As recently as Feb 15, 2013 Obama stated in a Chicago speech about gun violence, "A city, where as many children die from guns every four months as were slaughtered at Sandy Hook school in Connecticut." (Does Chicago sound like a nice place to raise children?) With strict gun control laws in Chicago there were 500 homicides in 2012. It appears to this "simpleton" our Sheriff is on point and accurate.Reply |
To answer Chuck's question, my Chicago residence is in the Lakeshore East neighborhood. It is neither gated nor a 'bubble'; it is a high-rise building. Downtown. While all the comments and opinions are appreciated, I stand by my statements. I know Chicago; its people, its 77 city within a city neighborhoods, its good things and - yes - even it's bad things. Of those bad things - such as the violent crime rate - the vast majority occurs in ONE portion of the 77: The South Side. (An area smaller in size to Sacramento and with many times the population) It is a nightmare. But it is in no way representative of the city as a whole. The vast majority of areas in the city are quite safe places to live and enjoy an extremely high quality of life. Remarkably clean. Remarkably well policed. And I can state these facts because unlike many of those dissenters, Ive actually BEEN to the city. The whole living there thing kinds provides perspective. Notice no opinion was provided regarding Washington DC or NYC...I have no personal experience, research or expertise on these cities. What I do have is real-world experience with Chicago. The Sheriff - obviously - does not. His comments sound more focused on pandering for reelection than working as elected.Reply |
The Sheriff's agenda? That is perhaps the most clueless statement I have read here not from Richard or Garon. Is the Sheriff the one attempting to re-write the 2nd Amendment?Reply |
The real correlation is all of the major crime cities across the country are not only part of the liberal machine politically they also are judicially. The felons are released and armed and dangerous very quickly just as they are here under Moonbeam. Chicago had to bring in a New York Police manager to take over the police department and what he did was go to the DA and have him start doing his job and locking up the armed felons, what happened was an immediate crime reduction. Chicago is a crime problem involving a very dysfunctional judicial system that was letting the armed felon out for more crime while waiting to be sentenced for the last felony, just like liberals do wherever they are in power. Sadly all of these major crime cities were once safe places to live until the liberal machine took over. This entire state will soon be suffering from this plague of bad liberal ideas, tax payers leaving and businesses relocating.Reply |
Morris, how can a self professed "professor" that lives in Georgetown profess to be neither pro or con on an issue as important as gun control? God I hope you're retired from the classroom now because your examples and thought patterns are a prime example of what we don't want to expose our young people too. I'll bet you're in the neighborhood of a Ward Churchill kind of guy. Your statement of feeling safer on the Chicago streets than you do on the Sacramento streets is so idiotic. What streets or neighborhoods are you comparing professor? I know in an earlier post of yours you had predicted and described an apocalyptic event and what would happen. Well when is does happen professor, you'd better hope you're right here in El Dorado with Sheriff D'Agostini and not in Chigago, Dubai or Sacramento.Reply |
I find a County Sheriff mocking the Vice President of the United States amusing. I find it even more amusing that the Sheriff position on gun control is literally word for word that of the NRA that represent the 99 billion dollar a year gun industry, and even more amusing the Sheriff thinks mental health is the issue and not guns when he has proudly given out over 2000 carry and conceal weapons permits without thorough mental health checks. It makes me think that the Sheriff doesn't really understand the issue of gun control and needs to spend a little time away from his jail and a little more time with the general population…. I can only relay my experience with guns and those who feel the need to be constantly armed: As a young man my law enforcement family always had guns around that were locked up in a secure closet and consisted of my grandfather and dads hunting rifles and service revolvers. They were never in any way readily accessible. Anyone could've broken into our house and he'd be almost helpless, their guns secured at the other end of the house. That was my experience with "legal" gun ownership. It's also what I expect of people who advocate "responsible" gun ownership……. Ironically, working with gangbangers years later in Oakland, I discovered them to be the, "ultimate armed libertarians (of a certain font)." They were engaged in the free market of one sort or another, often selling products that were unregulated, resisting any regulations. They took it upon themselves to protect themselves and their families—they didn't call 911. They were self-made men and women. They were tough individualists, relying only on themselves. Gangbangers don't have unemployment accounts. If their business activities fail, they don't get government handouts. In short, they fend for themselves in a dogs eat dog society. So that's my family experience with guns other than the military. The people who were "responsible" gun owners kept their guns locked up and occasionally went hunting. "The criminals used them for self protection and walked around armed." The arguments that many make for why they need their guns are founded in logics not that dissimilar from the reasons that inner-city gangbangers walk around armed. In both cases it is founded in a, "notion that the government is not to be trusted and that one's life is in one's own hands."Reply |
Makes sense to me Richard.Reply |
Jim Sweet, what Richard says makes sense to you that "criminals/gangbangers walk around armed just for their self protection"? Could you try real hard and think of any other reasons that might make sense to you?Reply |
Morris, You don't even live here. Go back to Chicago and hope you don't become a victim.Reply |
The Gang-Banger as a libertarian, an interesting concept of a failed society, one seen with the Somali Warlords, Drug Cartels, and corrupt failed countries everywhere. There is truth that there is a greater need in the U.S. for armed self protection in inner-city crime infested rat-holes, most agree, there are large inner-city areas in this country where even the police don't drive into unless called and what most of us want is to prevent more of this type of criminal anarchy to expand elsewhere. Criminal gangs have greatly expanded, caused partly by leaving the border open, the drug trade, and a failed judicial system now releasing thousands of felons on the streets. Liberty to be free from Govt. in all law abiding manner of living, that was what this country was founded upon, and what the Constitution and Amendments protect.Reply |
Richard, are you jealous that biden is such an easy target to make fun of? If you had a national stage more people would make fun of you too. The leftists have had their way in places like Chicago and this is the result. http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/21532865/cook-co-to-begin-posting-photos-of-unclaimed-bodies-onlineReply |
Taking biden's advise will land you in jail. "Just shoot your double barrel shotgun thru your front door".... There is a video of some women taking biden's advise at the end of this story that is freeeeekin hilarious. http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/28/every-single-bit-of-gun-advice-biden-gives-will-get-you-arrested/Reply |
Cookie, I saw that video and yes it is a MUST SEE video. In addition to being hilarious, it's a great demonstration. I wonder if Joe has seen it? HAAAAAAReply |
Morris and Richard, tell us about the success of the leftists creation of gun-free zones. Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Sandy Hook, Ft. Hood. 97 dead dozens and dozens wouned.Reply |
Morris, why are you too afraid to use your last name? Please do us a favor and go live in Chicago. You are right on Chuck Holland. On a recent business trip to Chicago I was surprised to pull into an industrial supply store parking lot and be greeted by an armed guard. This, in a well lit, well populated business park area. Guard told me they had shootings and robberies at gun-point in that park almost weekly. I agree with our Sheriff 100%. In fact, I am all for the forming of a well regulated and trained militia for ElDorado County and in support of the EDSO and our citizenry. Morris, if you feel safer in Chicago than you do in Sacramento, then you are obviously NOT a "well traveled man" and you have been only in the best parts of Chicago and the worst parts of Sacramento. Try reversing that . . after dark.. . Actually why don't you just move to Chicago. I have been to the best and worst areas of both cities and it is obvious to me that you are just a "mouth that roars."Reply |
Colonel, you have got to see Cookies link via Phil's 10:14a post. Now I gotta go.......Reply |
DB, well the ladies all looked well trained. Except for the guy at the end who drops his pants -- in addition to his belt, he needs suspenders. And, thank God he was wearing underwear.Reply |
Cookie, I had already seen that video before and thanks for sharing with others. It truly is hilarious. Biden is such an idiot. I would not put him in charge of an outhouse . . .oh wait, he is partially in charge of one now.Reply |
It is interesting to note that Chicago had the highest murder rate last year of major cities yet doesn't make the top 25 of most dangerous cities, Sounds like some type of manipulation of the stats to me. Now Baton Rouge, LA and Flint Michigan are the most dangerous failed liberal welfare state experiments, followed closely by Oakland and Stockton. All seem to have exploding gang populations with their violence and the liberal judicial system at work and early released armed felons everywhere. Sacramento is not on the list anywhere I saw for high crime. The comparison is flawed by reality.Reply |
Interesting series of posts. From some. Same rhetoric from others... Why take time to actually compose an intelligent counterpoint when insults say so much more. So ummm.. Yeah... 1. DB: I am not a professor nor have I ever claimed myself as such. 2. DB: Downtown Sacramento is not as safe as downtown Chicago. Fact. 3. Others: There are no gated communities in Chicago. Nor is my residence there in a 'bubble'. In fact, my address is 225 N. Columbus, Chicago 60601. (Note the '60601'. That's downfreakintown. Central. So I kinda got this one covered) 4. How many posters have actually journeyed outside of El Dorado County? (Citrus Heights does not count) 5. Notice no opinion was provided from myself regarding Washington DC or NYC...I have no personal experience, research or expertise on these cities. What I do have is real-world experience with Chicago. The Sheriff - obviously - does not. His comments sound more focused on pandering for reelection than working as elected. 6. In my opinion, Sheriff D'Agostini has performed remarkably in a role where he was largely set up to fail. How? By the horrid economic climate, the dope growers, the dope smokers and resource levels we should be embarrassed by, But on this issue, his facts and corollaries are neither.Reply |
Morris, enlighten me. What does your caveat of "real world experience" have to do with this : "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."? Where do you get the idea that the Sheriff was elected by the residence of El Dorado county to do anything other than uphold the oath he took to defend the Constitution? It is simply astounding to me the number of ways people will invent to avoid the subject of leftists wanting to disarm law abiding citizens. And make up silly if not stupid arguments to attack those who defend those law abiding citizens. Just like in your first post, you metioned the same old leftist tactic of hunting, the 2nd Amendment has zero, zip, nada to do with hunting. You don't support the spirit or intent of the 2nd Amendment, you can't bring yourself to actually say what they are.Reply |
Special note for Long Time Loco: My family has been on The Divide for well over 75 years. One branch over 90. I am both a landowner and homeowner here and have been for many years. I have invested in this community, employed folks in this community and take great pride in this community. While I may roam between residences - and I have the right to do so - THIS is my home and I'm not leaving. Deal with it newbie. Besides, there's a big election coming up that ill definitely won't miss.Reply |
Morris, Seems I hit a nerve. Ha! YOU are the one who said you are just a part time resident. Deal with that and move on. We're not too interested in "part time residents".Reply |
Morris, you say you take great pride in your community but I do remember how you blasted your community in previous posts. Are you the Georgetown Morris who was calling me BS at that time? Chicago...Morris, Rahm Emanuel, Barry Obumb a, Larry Sinclair.Reply |
Morris-I worked in downtown Sacramento for decades and have always been comfortable there. So you fear for your safety when on the streets of Sacramento, exactly where are you? As in all metropolitan areas there are good and bad areas. However, Sacramento does not have any of the downtown residential areas that compete with your home away from home in Chicago------ Aqua at Lakeshore East 225 N. Columbus Drive, Chicago IL Aqua is an architecturally world-reknown, mixed-use residential skyscraper located in the Lakeshore East development in the Chicago Loop. The 82-story building was constructed with irregularly-shaped concrete floor plates giving the building its distinctive "towering wave" look. It is the first building in the city to combine condo, hotel and rental units all in one structure. The units at Aqua provide floor-to-ceiling windows with incredible city and lake views. All residents have access to Aqua's Shore Club, a two-level recreational facility containing two pools, a running track, cardio and weight room, a spa and a media room. 215 hotel condominiums 476 rental units 263 luxury condominiums Retail and office space Aqua's Shore Club Three pools, running track Fitness center Lakeshore East ParkReply |
Morris-Please consider this-CRIMINAL HOMICIDE RATE PER 100,000 POPULATION - 2012 (Preliminary)------- New York City [414 Homicides---Population*: 8,175,133] RATE: 5.1 ------- Chicago [500 Homicides---Population*: 2,695,598] RATE: 18.6 -------- *SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Decennial Census - Final Data------Using Sacramento PD 2012 numbers their homicide rate is 7.4% ------36 homicides out of a population of 470,956. -----You may feel safer in Chicago than Sacramento, but it is possible the residents a few blocks over would feel safer in Sacramento.----The Sheriff is correct.Reply |
Morris, you say there are no gated communities in Chicago. Do you care to retract that statement? Are you trying to be some kind of undercover real estate agent for S***cago?Reply |
Morris, you say there are no gated communities in Chicago. Do you care to retract that statement? Are you trying to be some kind of undercover real estate agent for Chitcago?Reply |
Morris, what is the intent of the 2nd Amendment?Reply |
Lawyers and judges interpret laws, police enforce them. Can you imagine the slippery slope it would create to have cops interpreting laws and enforcing them based on their own opinions? Talk about unconstitutional. I dont care if you're pro or anti guns, you can't posdibly think that's a good idea. Plus, if the ban passes, it applies to future gun sales, not current owners. So that law would be enforced federally by the ATF, not by any local law enforcement. The only thing local cops would have to do is the same thing they always do… If they find a gun, they need to know if its legally owned. It doesn't matter if its a hand gun or assault weapon. So this sheriff needs to get off his high horse and do his job… Enforcing the laws that are put on the books reguradless of their personal opinions.Reply |
The Sheriff joined hundreds of other Sheriff's across the state and country to protest the liberals proposals to violate the Constitution and to affirm he will not join in making law abiding citizens criminals without a change in the Constitutional Amendments that are required to disarm the public, not a hard concept. It is not a personal choice, it is an oath of office. The state laws will make common deer and target rifles illegal as proposed and there will be a registration requirement for all semi auto rifles except for a few. These are clear violations of the 2nd Amendment that don't need a legal opinion of anyone, liberals know that the very Constitutions will need to be changed by Amendment, which will likely fail, at the state and federal level, yet they will try to do it anyway thereby requiring the Sheriff's to nullify their actions.Reply |
Wow DB. Wow. That's some kind talent you have there in that attempt at revisionist history. As well, selective memory. In one post I'm portrayed by you as having claimed to be a Professor (wholly untrue) and now within your recent post I am supposedly guilty of the past offense of 'blasting' my community. (Also wholly untrue) Please, DB, provide us with the links to support these allegations. I'd love to see what you have in support of these claims. Because you don't. But what is quite curious here is that I somehow have gotten under your skin. In some perverse form of flattery, you remember me. Because I replied to your attempted insults with dear 'BS' instead of dear 'DB'. Wow. See what you left out of that whole selective memory episode is how we 'met' so long ago; specifically your postings in reply to one of my commentaries. In those replies, you provided not once any counterpoint of factual data, not once a pro/con supporting agree/disagree....not a single attempt at even a basic adult difference of opinion. Nope. What you provided were flip one or two liners with childish schoolyard-like attempts at insulting me, my education and my family. It was then - and ONLY then DB - that you became, in my opinion, BS. Seems to me that you can sure dish it out. But boy howdy look at what you've clung to after some of your own damn BS playground tanbark flew right back at you. Wow. Wow!Reply |
Morris, if I'm wrong about the professor thing I will apologize, but, my memory has served me well regarding the rest of your sorry ars. I'll review and get back w/u. Now see...I didn't even have to write a book to explain all that.Reply |
D'Agostini is 100% wrong on the facts. Classic live-in-your-own-Fox-news bubble statement: "It is well known and proven with facts, not emotional inference, that gun control of any kind, has no effect on the reduction of crime, anywhere." Oh, really? John Howard, former conservative prime minister of Australia, recently wrote an op-ed piece titled, "Australia Banned Assault Weapons, America Can Too," in which he stated: "In the 18 years before the 1996 reforms, Australia suffered 13 gun massacres — each with more than four victims — causing a total of 102 deaths. There has not been a single massacre in that category since 1996. (when Australia banned assault weapons). Few Australians would deny that their country is safer today as a consequence of gun control."Reply |
Tahoedad, aside from the fact that we are talking about the 2nd Amendment and not Austalia or any other place. http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=17847Reply |
It is a common fantasy that gun bans make society safer. In 2002 -- five years after enacting its gun ban -- the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), says the D.C. Examiner.Reply |
Joe, if you are talking about my comment where I asked Morris what the "intent" of the 2nd Amendment was, it was a question about his claim that he "supported the intent and the spirit of the 2nd Amendment". If he can claim to support the "intent" he should at least be able to state what he thinks it is. The intent of the second Amendment can be found in the Declaration of Independence along with hundreds of other writings from those who wrote and signed it. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-"Reply |
The argument can be made that the safest country with the lowest crime rate has the highest rate of gun possession, Switzerland. It was not attacked by Germany in WWII for that reason. Every male 18 an over is required to have a fully automatic military grade rifle at the ready, not even locked away. It is a common sight for residents to hang their rifles like coats in cafes, every town just about has a gun range. This is our kind of country to emulate.Reply |
Dammit, Cookie! Tahoedad probably just wants to point out that gun control is not rocket surgery. Back off.Reply |
For those interested, here is a brief 'Chicago 101'. (from my perspective) Imagine hundreds of downtown Placervilles squeezed into a few dozen downtown Placervilles. Mix in a few hundred skyscrapers. Toss with 5 - 8 million people (City to Metro Area approx.) Add in all the cars in Northern California. Remove 75% of all the parking spaces in Northern California. Heck, who needs the expense of owning a car when the finest of everything is within either walking distance, 5 minute cab ride or 15 minute ride on the EL that runs every 3 minutes. And if you really need a car...hit the ZipCar App on your iPhone for the access code to one parked on your block and ready to roll by the hour. Or have it delivered; just like your groceries, laundry and frozen yogurt by the cup. You can even haveMacaroni and Cheese delivered at any time. Even hookers that don't look like hookers too. (Mac-n-Cheese optional) Fly local trains overhead and underfoot in the subway as well. Mix with Amtrak sized commuter trains....say about 30 of 'em all going different directions. Blend with two ginormous airports, highways, tollways, skyways, commuter ferries and non-stop construction. Now squeeze it all in half again and border on one side with a ocean lake. Cut a river / canals around two of the remaining sides and then slice it all in half. Make it 24/7 365. People out night and day. Make it expensive. Add lots of free stuff like concerts and festivals. Food trucks too!! And just for giggles, throw in every people from every nation speaking every language; all clustered by nationality within 77 distinctly different neighborhoods further delineated by more sub-neighborhoods within neighborhoods. Have stores that actually sell meatloaf. Just meatloaf. 60 different ways. Press GO and make it all work amazingly well with clean streets, friendly people and a near absence of panhandlers. Make it all work...but only for one side of the river. The larger side. The side with all the money, resources, beaches and beautiful light-skinned people. The side with no guns and no spray paint. The safe side. The North Side. Toss everything darker than us onto the other side. The side with the dirty industry we don't want blocking our view of all that beauty. The poor we don't wish to bother us with their neediness, the working poor who clean up after us and their poorly attired unattended children too. The side where you can't go out at night and you sleep on the floor so as to avoid the stray bullets of the only people who seem to have any money: The gangs. Remove grocery stores, hospitals, grass, cabs, pharmacies, parks, role models and hope. Replace with liquor stores, gangsters, desperation, streetwalkers, pimps and dope. Stack 'em high in concrete cesspools of the projects but call it something nice like Robert Taylor Homes so we feel better about it. (Concrete Cesspool Homes really just doesn't have a nice ring of Christian charity) Let it be for a few generations so as to become 'normal' for those born unto this place. So as to not remember what the path out is. Or that there IS a path. Finally, ensure that the worst economy in our lifetime hits and hits harder to those already on the edge. THIS is where those awful numbers are. This is the South Side. Chicago has always been - and likely will always be - two cities. Divided by a river. You are either Cubs or Sox. North Sider or South Sider. Neither side can legally own a handgun or purchase spray paint. Yet one side is quite safe and relatively graffiti free. The other is not. So the arguments pro and arguments con can fit depending upon how one manipulates the truth to support their desired result or the agenda' being served. In my opinion - and in my Chicago experience - neither pro or con is the solution to violent crime. What is? I don't know. But I think it has something to do with: Jobs. Fathers. Money. Parks. Education. Church. Community. Rehab. Schools without gangs. Mothers who aren't Mothers until finished being teenagers. Volunteers. Real jobs for felons who successfully paid their debt to society and embrace future right over past wrong. Role models.....Hope. I don't think guns make us any more safe or any more at risk. I think we all have it terribly, terribly wrong. The issue. All of us. Myself included.Reply |
Its reasonable to consider that a state law should be passed that would allow a citizen to petition the courts for removal of a high powered semi-automatic assault type weapon from your neighbor premises if it threatens the health and safety of you and your family. After all, the neighboring families are really the ones in risk from the over-spray should your adrenaline propelled hell bent on shooting a gun FOX news survivalist Twinkie neighbor start shooting. There are all kinds of gun range rules, why not some community gun rules.Reply |
Tahoechild, Fox didn't write the 2nd Amendment, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution or cause the leftists dream of gun-free zones to lead to the deaths of so many innocent people. I realize how difficult it is for people of your maturity level to deal with a few drops of psuedo conservatism in an ocean of liberalism and anything that allows an opposing point of view to what you have been indoctrinated with. Just for historical reference the leftists in country after country after country have gone after citizens owning guns long before your obsession with fox news ever existed. What your neighbor owns is none of your business. You are free to live in your fantasy utopia with your unicorns and pixie dust but most of us will stay in reality.Reply |
Germany did not attack Switzerland because they needed a safe place to park their moneyReply |
robert, what made Switzerland "a safe place"? And by the way, it wasn't "their" money. It was the money they stole from everyone they had disarmed.Reply |
Hey Bob...Nobody attacks the Swiss, not even the Swiss!!!.....But, according to some historians, it was on Hitler's "things to do" list....Reply |
R.J. you are spot on. Switzerland's fate was the same fate as all useful idiots once they are no longer useful. They were part of the 3rd Reich empire that was to last 1,000 years. They were a "loose end" to the socialist regime the same way the 2nd Amendment is to our modern day socialists. There is a quote in one of the Star Wars movies that is a perfect expression of the leftists in this country. "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."Reply |
All you have to do to see how gun control turns out for a free people is visit an Indian Reservation. You don't have to travel to Auschwitz.Reply |
Who are theses nuts who keep beating the drum of the lost gun control issue. Gun control is what the majority of the people in our nation want, get used to it.Reply |
RJ,i agree hitler would have invaded Switzerland but the reason he hadn't was not because the population was armedReply |
Morris, It was last year that I thought I remembered you mentioning that you were a retired professor. Well I can't prove or disprove the "professor" comment and I don't have the time to keep looking through the archives for evidence so I'll have to apologize for that one. If I were to visit the "South Side" of Chitcago I know I would feel much safer w/a gun.Reply |
Glenn, we all appreciate your demonstration of indocrination over information. Even our local media (not the brightest group) has a problem with the claim that a majority support gun restrictions. I do realize that you learned the strategy favored by leftists, if you repeat it often enough it will become reality, but you provide us with nothing but what you want to believe as evidence. http://www.news10.net/news/article/233840/2/Reality-Check-Gun-poll-in-California-districts-uses-shaky-assumptionsReply |
How about the last election nut case, do you need more proof?Reply |
You must be talking about the election where people voted for obama 6 times and obama got 100% of the vote in places that have 70% illiteracy. Have you noticed how 60+% of the country think the country under obama is heading in the wrong direction. I realize that you attribute people voting for trillions in entitlements is proof of something but the only thing it is proof of is how much destruction leftistism has done to destroy the foundations of this country.Reply |
Here is a poll from the obama cheerleaders at the Washington Post that shows the opposite of what the leftist media has trained you to believe. Across the board federal spending cuts excluding the military. Is that what your "majority" voted for in November? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/06/cut-government-spending-sure-cut-the-military-no-way/Reply |
Not related to the Sheriff, but I note that Senator McConnell is already running ads knocking Ashley Judd because she has appeared naked in movies (this before she has actually declared as an opponent). Seems to me that voters in Kentucky would want to see nude pictures of Senator McConnell so they could best judge the candidates given the Senator has raised the subject. I've never seen Senator McConnell naked (thank you God), but I'm going to give Ashley the edge. Kentuckians, vote for the best body because Senator McConnell believes naked bodies are important in politics. If they do, it will be a landslide for Ashley.Reply |
What do you think of the panywaist temper tantrum being thrown by the child-in-chief by not allowing 6th graders to visit the Whitehouse after the last 4 years of spending their money? Talk about a pathetic example of what the left is. A bunch of whiny sniveling little babies. You do know that what he charged the taxpayers for his golf weekend would pay for an entire year of Whitehouse tours. Have you seen all the pinocchio's he has gotten for his lies about sequester? A leftist news outlet is reporting it. They can censor the news for only so long. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/03/obama-administration-sequester-claims-shot-down-by-158626.htmlReply |
James, McConnell is illustrating a serious lack of vision among our career politicians. If that is the best he can do he no longer useful to the American people. Politics has become a celebrity sport. That isn't a good thing but it is the truth. obama is the proof of it. We long ago quit electing the most qualified in favor of who has the best production. How is the little dog?Reply |
Cookie, Mr. Fred is on the mend. He is a little slowed down because of the metal staples on his stomach wound. Those will be removed on Tuesday and his chemo will begin. Given the type of cancer he has my Vet daughter advises me that he could be good to go for the next two years. Regardless of the time he has left we will enjoy every minute with Mr. Fred. An old friend contacted my wife and asked her, "Is Mr. Fred a relative?" Confusion existed because most dogs are Fred and not Mr. Fred. So why did we name him Mr. Fred. Don't know, just looked at him and said, "That's Mr. Fred." Never used Mr. before and never will again as there is only one Mr. Fred. We do get a little silly with our little friends.Reply |
That is great news James. My dogs have lots of silly names and they know all of them. I can call any one of my 4 dogs and the one I call will come to me. Staples are not fun especially around the belly. My first set were from the belly button straight down to well below the belt line, 14 of them. It sounds like what Mr Fred had responds well to treatment and that is the best news of all.Reply |
James and Cookie, my dogs all have middle names and one of them has four nicknames and responds to each one. Good luck to Mr. Fred. We can all come together when it comes to our pets!Reply |
Again, not germane to the Sheriff but it is germane to the rule of law that us little folks have to adhere to or suffer the consequences. This apparently is not true of big banks. Attorney General Holder has now informed us that while they can get fines in civil actions, it is impossible to bring criminal charges against the big banks. Thinking being that if they were charge criminally, the financial markets of the United States would just crumble. This has caused my BS detector to go off big time. May I suggest they could charge the CEO, COO, and CFO of a bank, say Wells Fargo, prosecute them and give them 10 years in jail without the possibility of parole. Would Wells Fargo fold and bring disaster to our financial markets? No, they would just pay their civil fine and hire a new CEO, COO, and CFO. Hopefully these new officials would ponder whether they would enjoy 10 years in prison, so their actions would be guided by that consideration. I know Holder's background is lawyering for financial institutions. What is going on here? Is he making sure he has employment options after he leaves office? Bottom line: My BS detector is so loud it is hurting my ears, even though I have hearing problems from years in helicopters.Reply |
James, are you beginning to see the house of cards for what it is? Imagine what the headlines would be if it were Mitt Romney. Millions of people were fooled and they got the opposite of what they thought they were voting for. But if you ask them they are the most educated and informed among us. This is the most opaque administration in American history and it was fully dependent on the most ignorant people in our history for re-election.Reply |
James, you know what the biggest disgrace is? If you google it not a single main stream media outlet is reporting it. That is an absolute failure of what the founders considered to be the 4th branch of government. No wonder obama was re-elected. The media has chosen sides. Of course I knew that a lifetime ago. My obsticle has been trying to get others to figure it out. They call me names for trying to get them to see it.Reply |
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Cookie, when a first year law student, while discussing the finding in a case, jumps up and says "That finding by the court is just not fair." The professor "firmly" informs that student and the class that he doesn't want to ever hear that again as there is no fairness in the law. The professor appears to be right, as I'm disturbed when the Attorney General, the first lawman of the country, admits in public that it wouldn't be "fair" to prosecute crimes perpetrated by the officials of the big banks. Damn their eyes, if they steal from the people they must be held to account. I've commented previously that the administration thinks it's not "fair" to prosecute war crimes. Now it's not "fair" to prosecute big bank crimes. What's next? The Rule of Law? A fraud. The house of cards? I've never been naive about our government. Some good, some bad. Spin the wheel, and good luck to us all.Reply |
Cookie, yes, absent from the media. Should be front page news!! Maybe buried in the back, if it appears at all. The media was supposed to keep the b*stards honest. The have also become frauds. Note: Had to do the * or the censor would cancel this comment.Reply |
Oh, and did I forget to say that the pediment at the Supreme Court reads "Equal Justice Under Law." Guess that's going to have to be chipped off and replaced with "Random Justice Under Law."Reply |
James, this thread has brought out people who want obama to ban the 2nd Amendment. Do they want him to ban the 1st the 4th or the 15th? They don't have the slightest clue what they are supporting. As far as equal under the law is concerned, if that were held up every politician in DC would be in jail. They practice excluding themsleves from the laws passed on the rest of us. The implications of the president choosing which laws to enforce and which laws not to enforce, who to enforce them against and who not to are a pandora's box. The rule of law is what holds a society together. When people vote for someone based on class warfare they are giving that person permission to take money from one person and give it to another without any conciderattion of which direction that money is going to go, just an assumption. He said the right words to play on their jealousy and envy and leave them believing the money would flow from the "rich" to them. They get what they deserve but in the mean time their self-centered motives are going to cost us all. They have no clue how they have been played and the media isn't going to tell them.Reply |
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With our mainstream media pimping it's-self out to a Nation of ill-informed, dielectrics who are able to merely vote themselves "free stuff", the next Amendment to be burned will no doubt be our 22nd.......Reply |
Speaking of banksters................ https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FOC2ea2tpPYReply |
Wow DB. That was a rather swift return to the eloquent phonics of days past. Thought we worked this out with your apology and all. Oh well. Happy Passive-Aggressive Day to ya bud. You asked if I would like to retract my statement concerning gated communities. My answer: Non. Je ne regrette rien. (That outta keep you busy for a while) No matter who is accurate on this one, you did call my attention back to the statement. It's rather absolute. My point would have been better served by saying 'I am not aware of any gated communities in the city of Chicago'. Mind you, I'm not going to change it tho...bets are on the table and it appears you really really really (oh boy! i got him now!) really really want to show your cards. Lets see the Full Gated House bubba. (Good gawd I think I can actually HEAR your little squeals of anticipation. That noise...reminds me of...hmmm...got it: Roscoe P. Coaltrain)Reply |
Morris, that's a whole lotta a bla, bla, bla when all you really had to admit to and say was you screwed up. You poor little insecure Chitcagonian.Reply |
Ummm... DB? We're still waiting for that trump card of yours. All you brought to the table was your bus pass. So when you stop touching yourself inappropriately while dancing a little kookie dance around your netbook in the Day Room, understand that I did not retract my statement nor intend to. You got nothing. Except my amusement. That, it seems, you'll always have.Reply |
Well you're one nasty little cuss aren't you Morris? Your continued and awkward attempts at trying to impress someone hasn't worked but you are quite the kick. I think the only person you're impressing is you. Ha! Is your nasty little licentious butt still volunteering in the classroom? If you are you should not be allowed around kids. Don't let it bug you too much and try to get a good night's sleep Chitcagonian.Reply |


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Lots of potential however the program crashes (in windows 7) every hour and now the windows-controls have disappeared and the window cannot be resized. I applied for bug account but never received the verification (20 hours and waiting). The interface is confusing and many simple features are missing like a middle name field. adding parents is a tedious task.
The developers have put a lot of time into this program and made it quite complex. There lies the problem. The program is not well organized, with options scattered in seemingly random places. There is also so much useless garbage in this program that it becomes very clumsy. Using "given name" and "surname" instead of first and last name is just plain clumsy. Having options for 7 different calendar types when nobody has used anything by the Gregorian calendar in the last 1,000 years is a perfect example of what's wrong with this program. It seems as if they typed up a list of 1,000 features in Latin, then ran it through Google translate, then implemented them all willy-nilly.
Gramps 4.x will not install on Peppermint Ice. I get the following: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: python2.7 I cannot find and install python2.7. Have installed 2.6 and 3.0 but still get the message and installation stop.
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Chris Arreola is a boxer who would wear his emotions on his sleeve. That is, if there were any room.
The massive arms that the Riverside boxer hopes will carry him back into the heavyweight title picture are covered with tattoos. The muscles ripple and the tattoos jiggle. For lovers of tattoos and boxing, Arreola is an art form.
He is also among the more interesting people in a sport that often filters out real personalities in exchange for orchestrated hype. There is nothing orchestrated about Arreola. Having lunch with him is more interesting than watching him box, and watching him box isn't all that bad.
He will be in the ring Saturday at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario as part of an HBO tripleheader coordinated over two continents, North and South America. A new concept for TV, ever turning up the hype in boxing, is one card, one promotion, two sites, often times zones apart.
In this most recent attempt to feed the insatiable TV sports gods, Arreola will go first at about 5:30 p.m. in Ontario. He will fight Bermane Stiverne. That will be followed by two title fights from Buenos Aires, the feature matching Sergio Martinez and Martin Murray, preceded by Luis Carlos Abregu versus Antonin Decarie.
Think of it as your typical Ontario-Buenos Aires connection. Fans watching in Argentina are sure to wonder why there are so many palm trees in Canada.
If the format is silly, the stakes for Arreola are not.
He is 32, has a record of 35-2, with 30 knockouts, and has been on the doorstep of real boxing fame once before — partly because he fights in the sport's sexiest division and partly because he is of Mexican heritage. Some may downgrade that Mexican heritage because it took roots at birth in East L.A. Nevertheless, there has never been a heavyweight champion of the world with that heritage.
When Arreola fought Vitali Klitschko on Sept. 26, 2009 at Staples Center for the WBC title, he had matched the legendary Manuel Ramos (1968 versus Joe Frazier) among those heavyweights of his heritage getting a title match.
Klitschko of Ukraine, who along with brother Wladimir, holds all of boxing's meaningful heavyweight titles, beat up Arreola that night. Arreola, who had never been taken seriously by the boxing community, returned to being a bar stool punch line.
Now, he has a rare second chance. He is the No. 1 challenger in Vitali Klitschko's WBC division. The Stiverne fight is an eliminator to see who gets next with Klitschko.
Arreola, who says Stiverne (22-1-1, 20 KOs) is no pushover, claims that if he gets Klitschko again the result will be different. "The first fight with Vitali I got at the last minute," he says. "I had about five-six weeks. I weighed 295 and I wanted to get to 241. It wasn't a training camp, it was a weight-loss camp."
Weight has always been Arreola's problem. He talked about getting it off, but lingered near 300 pounds between fights and fought at as much as 265. His pre-fight intentions were to look like Evander Holyfield. His ring entrances resembled the Pillsbury Doughboy.
That has changed for good, he says. He will fight in the "low 240s" he says.
"I stopped eating out so much," he says. "That just piles weight on you. I stay active now. Just taking a walk for 30-45 minutes can do wonders."
His shaved head has been replaced by hair. His longtime manager, Henry Ramirez, says Arreola is a different fighter now.
"It's the hair," Arreola jokes. He also says, "I'm a young 32, but I want to do this only so long, so that when I'm 37-38, people can understand what I'm saying when I talk to them."
He trains with Ramirez in a gym on the side of a hill behind a big home in Riverside. The gym, named II Feathers, is owned by William (Indian) Schunke, who also owns the home in front. The wind whistles though the aluminum door on one side of the spacious gym. Visitors sit in heavy swivel chairs that once swiveled people in front of slot machines. On one wall, a sign proclaims: "Failure to prepare is preparing for failure." John Wooden would be impressed.
Ramirez says Arreola is long over his anger at his corner stopping the Klitschko fight after the 10th round. Arreola yelled at Ramirez, sobbed, then cursed a bit more than even the boxing norm in his post-fight interview.
"I don't try to change that stuff, or him," Ramirez says. "Chris isn't some wholesome guy, but he's not a street guy, either. He just likes to curse."
That fits perfectly. Were Arreola to make his way to, and through, Klitschko, a boxing world that has long doubted him will scratch its head and say, "Well, I'll be damned."
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MOUNT VERNON A free public forum on bullying will be presented Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Mount Vernon High School gymnasium. The program, Stop Bullying Now! will feature Jim Bisenius (the anti-bullying guy) and others.
Every day more heart-wrenching stories come to light about children being attacked, injured and/or emotionally traumatized by bullies. Does Ohio have a law prohibiting bullying in school? Who does this law apply to: Does the law define bullying? What does the law require schools to do? What actions can parents take to prevent bullying? What can parents do if they find out about bullying? Bullying is not only confined to children bullying wears many faces individuals do not need to be physically harmed to be victims of bullying.
Bisenius has 16 years of experience as a child and adolescent therapist specializing in teaching extremely targeted youth how to handle bullying situations. He has developed response techniques that have been recognized nationally as extremely effective at stopping the dance between kids who bully and the ones they target. The public is encouraged to attend and be a part of stop bullying now.
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"Haggling demands a certain amount of diligence and discretion," Loria writes. "You cannot be too inflexible nor can you give up too soon…. Haggle for your price. A shrewd businessman never accepts the first offer."
If only the Marlins had held out for Jays catchers J.P. Arencibia (a Miami kid) or Travis D'Arnaud (their top prospect) instead of settling for washout Jeff Mathis.
"The kids are savvy to all the benefits of the business world," Loria writes. "And like any hard-working businessman, they will take their profits whenever and wherever they can get them. The Peanuts play the tycoon game and enjoy it."
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Maybe it's time to consider Loria an honorary member of the Schulz gang.
On and on it goes like this, Loria interjecting his largely conservative social observations in between long panels of "Peanuts" strips.
"A well-bred bargainer is rarely forgotten," the budding art dealer explains.
"In business and politics," he writes, "honesty and sincerity often have a way of working against you."
And this: "Snoopy's no fool. If a sport's no fun, he backs away – on all fours."
Such lines carry greater resonance today as Loria nears his 72nd birthday, his approval rating at an all-time low, his baseball legacy trashed.
Consider his description of a certain bald righty, a.k.a. the "boss of the baseball diamond."
"Charlie really likes baseball," Loria writes. "His pursuit of the game, even with minor neurotic undertones, is above all sincere."
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The end of summer is sneaking up on us while we rush to take care of tomatoes, squash and some other plants in the garden that seem to just go crazy at this time of the year. My vegetable garden is right up there with others in that it seems that it is doing its best to finish up as fast as it can. Apples are coming along on some of the trees and I am continuously amazed at the large size of the apples from the trees that have been in a more protected spot, while another apple tree is truly a disaster from early apple damage from hail in June.
This particular apple tree is State Fair and they are just about ready to eat.
A little work in the garden right now will save you time, not only later in this growing season but also next year. The boys are put to work picking up apples under the trees that have fallen to the ground. Any that are edible are still put to use in apple sauce or apple juice which is truly the best compared to brand apple sauces and juice.
It is really important to keep up with picking fruit that is ripening almost, seemingly, right before our eyes. We complain about picnic beetles and the Asian lady beetles eating things up but they are only attracted to fruits and some vegetables that are first overripe or like my apples on my one tree, damaged.
The best bet to keep these guys under wraps is to keep any damaged apples, melons or berries picked when they are ripe and to get rid of any that have become damaged in anyway. Damaged fruit will also attract yellow jackets and sometimes bees as well
After the rainfall that some of us have had, it is particularly time to watch out for melons such as muskmelon and watermelons that will crack, and yes, sometimes explode-well at least look like they have exploded in the garden.
They go crazy and up take all of this water which doesn't leave a lot of time for the outside part of the melon to expand which equals cracked watermelons and exploding muskmelons. A cracked open melon is still good to eat as long as you get to it before the bugs do. You may see this in some pumpkins that have completed their lifecycle and are done growing in the garden.
This year the pumpkins that we are growing are of the general type except we are trying our hand at growing the Dill's Atlantic Giant which is providing some extra entertainment value just in the size of the vine itself while we wait to see just how big those pumpkins get.
They are sort of unusual in that they are sort of a washed out orange color right now in comparison to the Hawarden variety that we are also growing which is strictly green while growing. As my grandmother used to say, some pumpkins are really more like a squash that has been "put together" with a pumpkin, more than anything else.
Don't forget to make sure that any tomatoes that you have in the garden that have fallen from the vine are picked up and disposed of - which also helps to keep your garden under control next year for diseases.
Once you are done with your tomato plants, it is a wise choice to pull up the vines and remove them altogether from the garden to help ensure that many of the blights and other foliar diseases are not carried over into next year's crop.
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This jewel in Germany's crown is one of its most popular tourist destinations as well as being one of its most sophisticated cultural centres. On the one side, it's a city full of lofty works of art, stunning architecture and historical buildings, opera, theatre and more. While, on the other, it's a city full of warmth and openness, with just a touch of that German fairytale village feeling.
The city's motto is 'München mag Dich', or 'Munich Likes You', and it certainly does. You'll stroll from museum to cathedral down adorable lanes and pass gingerbread-like half-timbered houses on the way. It's the perfect mix. Add to that a strong contingent of trendy art-cafes full of life and conversation and, of course, plenty of beer gardens with perfect pilsners and a lively German gusto that has remained unchanged for years.
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Munich's Nymphenburg Palace is the place to go on a crisp winter's day. As soon as the canal leading up to the impressive building freezes over, locals flock there for a game of "Eisstockschiessen, which is the Bavarian equivalent to curling. Equipment is available for hire, or just enjoy the spectacle with a mug of glühwein (Tram 17, 1 Schloss Nymphenburg, +89 179 080).
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Happy Birthday, Mormons for Marriage
Four years ago, as hundreds of thousands marched in San Francisco's Pride Parade, hundreds of LDS bishops stood at pulpits asking Mormons to do all they could to support Proposition 8. Four years later, hundreds of Mormons across the country (and around the world) are stepping out in pride parades in support of and in solidarity with the LGBTQ community.
What else has changed in the past four years?
- The Church Handbook of Instructions no longer includes a request that church members should lobby governments to deny same-sex marriage rights (and rites) via legislative actions.
- LDS rhetoric about same-sex marriage rights is shifting to focus on the need to protect religious freedom, rather than the need to protect families.
- The LDS Public Affairs office actually used the term "gay" to describe individuals, rather than-sex attracted or same-gender attracted in its response to HRC's criticisms of Pres. Packer's October 2010 conference talk.
- BYU students have created and continue to grow a gay-straight alliance (Understanding Same-Gender Attraction) at a school where once admitting to same-sex attraction was a fast ticket out the door
- Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought published a paper (Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology) exploring what it means to be both homosexual and Mormon.
- The LDS Church came out in support of non-discrimination ordinances in Salt Lake City which would protect homosexuals in housing and employment. While there are large carve-outs for church-related/owned businesses, the ordinances in SLC inspired a number of other Utah and Idaho towns and cities to follow suit and opened many conservative Mormon's eyes to some problems they'd never before considered.
- Individual Mormons are coming out and telling their own stories – whether they are gay, lesbian, bi, in mixed-orientation marriages, or have family/friends that fit the bill. These discussions are happening on a daily basis in person, in the media, in churches and online as LGBTQ members and allies find one another and give each other strength to carry on, both in and out of the church.
- The Family Acceptance Project (FAP) has published a booklet specifically for LDS parents based on FAP's foundational research on family acceptance and rejection that provides guidance on acceptance and support of their gay children.
- There have been no church-sponsored efforts aimed at mobilizing Mormons to fight same-sex marriage at the polls the way Mormons were mobilized in California in 2008, despite efforts of other religions originally part of the "religious coalition" that supported Prop 8. General church leaders have gone out of their way to make sure all overt same-sex marriage advocacy is being done by local leaders or individuals.
Do we still have a ways to go? Yes, we do. But we are making progress, one step at a time.
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21 Responses to "Happy Birthday, Mormons for Marriage"
1Brad Carmackon 20 Jun 2012 at 4:44 pm
Great summary Laura, thanks!
Let's hear it for progress, one step at a time!
3Morris Thurstonon 20 Jun 2012 at 5:56 pm
Nice summary, Laura. Thanks!
4Trevoron 20 Jun 2012 at 8:02 pm
Don't forget the recent Pride parades that have featured Mormon contingents
6Lauraon 21 Jun 2012 at 7:18 am
In late October 2008, just a week or two before the November election, Elder Clayton told the Salt Lake Tribune that
Latter-day Saints are free to disagree with their church on the issue without facing any sanction, said L. Whitney Clayton of the LDS Quorum of the Seventy. "We love them and bear them no ill will."
7Lauraon 21 Jun 2012 at 7:28 am
Earlier that month, in a satellite broadcast Elder Quentin L. Cook reminded the audience that:
Please understand that the central message of the Savior is to love all of our brothers and sisters. Remember there are good people who disagree with the church's teachings on marriage.
Others are unsure of where they stand. Be respectful of their opinions as you share your message. Nothing we say here can be used as an excuse to treat those with same gender attractions partially or disrespectfully. There are faithful temple-worthy members of the church who struggle with this great challenge, often in silence, fear, and great pain. Our hearts go out to these good brothers and sisters
8stephanieon 21 Jun 2012 at 9:54 am
I especially appreciate the courage of gay members of the church who are now speaking up, letting the rest of us get to know them and their stories. I know the gospel of Christ is one of love and compassion. And I hope we are getting better as a church at living more Christ-like lives.
9fiona64on 22 Jun 2012 at 8:46 am
Hard to believe that it's been four years! I am personally grateful, as a straight ally, to every LDS member who used the courage of his or her convictions to stand up against the "teachings" of the church (my parents are LDS and, while they disagree with the church getting involved in politics, take the attitude that "the prophet knows best" at all times). I am hopeful that more members will take a more loving attitude toward what happens under *civil law* rather than trying to insert churchly beliefs into politics. Thanks, Laura, for all that you do and have done.
10Lauraon 22 Jun 2012 at 3:27 pm
Mormons, of course, are not the only people changing views about gays, lesbians and same-sex marriage in the past four years. Take, for example, David Blankenhorn. He was one of the witnesses testifying on behalf of traditional marriage in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial. He's changed his mind about preventing same-sex couples from marrying.
He's written an op-ed piece at the NY Times discussing his reasons for changing his mind, including:
I had hoped that the gay marriage debate would be mostly about marriage's relationship to parenthood. But it hasn't been. Or perhaps it's fairer to say that I and others have made that argument, and that we have largely failed to persuade. In the mind of today's public, gay marriage is almost entirely about accepting lesbians and gay men as equal citizens. And to my deep regret, much of the opposition to gay marriage seems to stem, at least in part, from an underlying anti-gay animus. To me, a Southerner by birth whose formative moral experience was the civil rights movement, this fact is profoundly disturbing.
I had also hoped that debating gay marriage might help to lead heterosexual America to a broader and more positive recommitment to marriage as an institution. But it hasn't happened. With each passing year, we see higher and higher levels of unwed childbearing, nonmarital cohabitation and family fragmentation among heterosexuals. Perhaps some of this can be attributed to the reconceptualization of marriage as a private ordering that is so central to the idea of gay marriage. But either way, if fighting gay marriage was going to help marriage over all, I think we'd have seen some signs of it by now.
So my intention is to try something new. Instead of fighting gay marriage, I'd like to help build new coalitions bringing together gays who want to strengthen marriage with straight people who want to do the same. For example, once we accept gay marriage, might we also agree that marrying before having children is a vital cultural value that all of us should do more to embrace? Can we agree that, for all lovers who want their love to last, marriage is preferable to cohabitation? Can we discuss whether both gays and straight people should think twice before denying children born through artificial reproductive technology the right to know and be known by their biological parents?
Will this strategy work? I don't know. But I hope to find out.
11fiona64on 25 Jun 2012 at 11:02 am
Laura, I wholeheartedly concur. When Prop H8′s "expert witness" is now recanting, it is indeed evidence of progress.
12First Timeon 26 Jun 2012 at 12:31 pm
Wonderful progress, and I believe this site, Laura, and those who participate in this forum have played an important role in educating those both in and out of the church that marriage equality for all is essential to gospel living.
13Sheryl Becketton 01 Jul 2012 at 4:30 pm
Wish I had known about the Mormons for Marriage contingent, but, I did march (walk) with my PFLAG chapter. I was surprised but happy when my son told me about the Mormons for Marriage contingent. Time are changing.
14fiona64on 08 Aug 2012 at 9:48 am
The Prop 8 Campaign is being fined (again) for numerous improprieties.
Particulars here (includes link to original story): http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/2012/08/07/prop-8-campaign-could-face-almost-50000-in-fines/
Thanks for this update! I was unaware of many of these milestones, so you've really helped me to stay hopeful.
16Joeon 12 Sep 2012 at 11:42 am
I know you probably won't post this comment (like the others) just want to say how saddened I am to see you doing what you do. The LDS Church has taught love and compassion for gays, and there is no reason for gays to marry, and the research shows that the gay agenda is harmful for our children. As I ahve studied these issues I've come to realize that my gay family members (that I love very much) would probably be happily heterosexual right now if it weren't for the propaganda, and the agenda you promote. Environment is a leading cause in expression of homosexuality, and those manipulating studies and creating this environment which suppresses certain facts (such as: many gays can change, that activists do promote hatred against faith, that homosexuality is probably not genetic, that we are probably not born with homosexuality etc etc) share responsibility for those things that gays suffer, including suicide, depression, abandonment of children and spouses, addiction etc.
17fiona64on 12 Sep 2012 at 3:54 pm
Dear Joe:
Please cite your source that explains why the "gay agenda is harmful for our children." Also cite your source for "Environment is a leading cause in expression of homosexuality." Why? Because both statements run contrary to what *science* has proven.
Just a couple of sources that back up my position and prove yours wrong:
For crying out loud, if what you said was true, we would not have 1500 non-human animal species in which homosexuality is observed. In fact, the bonobos apes (our closest relative on the planet, with whom we share 97 percent of our DNA) have lesbianism as their primary form of sexual congress.
Nice victim blaming at the end, though. I can't imagine why gay folks would be depressed, suicidal, etc. given the kind of propagandistic nonsense that they are exposed to by things like what you posted.
BTW, I'm a straight, married, middle-aged woman who believes in Jesus' teachings. One of the things he taught was to love our neighbors as ourselves … and there was no codicil about "unless your neighbor is gay." You cannot pretend to love your gay family members whilst simultaneously promoting lies about them, Joe. Sorry.
18Philon 13 Sep 2012 at 9:39 pm
fiona64, you do realize that most Mormons believe as Joe does.
No matter how wonderful many of the Mormons are on this site, it will never change the fact that the church is run by men who are appointed as leaders by like-minded people who will never change their minds.
The Mormon gospel has no room for gays. If they make room, then it's a changing gospel and loses it's stranglehold. You aren't allowed to waver in your beliefs remember?
I wish the Mormon church was a true and pure church of Christ. I don't know many churches that even come close to this. Alas, it's a church of Men for the most part. As it is run by men and men make all the decisions.
Sure, there's lots of really really awesome things in the church. And I've read most of the book of Mormon and I found some good things in there too. And obviously there are many many wonderful followers. But no matter how many followers change their minds and truly love their neighbours, it will not change the church doctrine and the prophets themselves.
I know many people on this site pray and hope for a more inclusive Mormon church, but unfortunately, unless they change their entire vision of the afterlife, gays will never be included.
Who wants to settle for second-best? Who wants to accept that they either have to never experience true love and partnership with the object of their affections? Who wants to never truly be part of the "big plan" in the afterlife.
Oh sure, all the straight people will be gods themselves and rule over worlds. Ill just be one of their assistants? since I cannot produce spirit children and I'm not married to a woman in the temple.
All of it is absurd. And to think that Mormons are changing is kind of naïve. It's like ignoring the entire precepts of Mormonism, in the hopes that the Mormon church will be socially inclusive to gays, just not inclusive in any way that really matters, which is in the gospel of Christ.
19Philon 13 Sep 2012 at 9:45 pm
Just a second thing to add that comes to mind. In a discussion about the gospel with my mother, she said to me, "Don't try and make me believe things that will not allow me to believe in the church."
People who convert to Mormonism are usually searching for answers. To give them even a hint that they might have had the wool pulled over their eyes makes them feel unsafe. No-one likes to be unsafe. So I long ago decided that I will let my mother believe what makes her happy, and that's worth more than anything in the world. To believe in any church you want is not wrong, I know God will still judge her based on the same precepts that all of us will be judged on as stated by Jesus in the Bible:
Truly Love God. Truly Love Your Neighbor.
And I believe she does that, and I try to do that everyday. I believe Love wins, and I will be with her in the afterlife with God, not because she is Mormon, but because she followed the basic principles of Christ.
20fiona64on 14 Sep 2012 at 9:22 am
Hi, Phil. Your thoughts were very moving and, sadly, correct. (I have nice LDS parents who cannot understand my oppositions to many of their church's teachings.) FWIW, there is no room for me in the church either: a straight woman who took surgical measures to ensure there would be no children, and who could never be content with the idea that the highest calling I could have on the planet would be to have a great many kids.
I know some very nice individual Mormons, make no mistake. Some of them are from this very site. I admire those who are trying to make change from within, but I have a far greater understanding of those who vote with their feet.
I just cannot imagine people thinking that Jesus would only love people if they were straight and willing to have a zillion kids. Oh, and take as gospel the word of angry old men who are, IMO, afraid of losing their hegemony as the world changes around them.
21Philon 14 Sep 2012 at 6:15 pm
It's really easy to make decisions for people when you never ever have to deal with the outcome. That's why I believe there is no room for anyone between us and Jesus.
To add any layers in between our savior and ourselves doesn't make sense. If all of man are fallen, and all of man are sinners, then why would we allow any of them to get between us and God?
But because of the plan of salvation's easy fit for any heterosexual person that subscribes to these ideals (which is most of the population) the church works for 90% of the Mormon population and so it's easy for them to follow. The rest of us unfortunately get left behind. Which is exactly the message I understood of Christ, which was to take care of the people who are left behind.


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